spiders!! eek

[buzzingtalk]

Just killed the biggest spider I've ever seen in a city, let alone by bedroom. was tucked in a dark corner on the stairs but the bugger wasn't to get away.

Is it me or do they seem to be getting thicker and bigger? Just the other day I got out of bed at OH's mums rural house, and noticed a massive black thing in the dark on the floor, i jumped up and turned the light on and it was bloody huge, the size of a man's hand.

So, tips for keeping them out? I keep conkers by the windowsills which seems to work for the most part (no idea where this one came from today though!)

I know some of you will disagree with me killing them but I used to have severe arachnaphobia, I am getting better in that I don't cry and scream and then not be able to enter a room for a week or so even after it's dead...i can now dispatch of them myself (with a large shoe!) and smaller (very small) ones I am happy to flick or move with my own hand.

[Hazel at the Hill]

Hi BT - sorry 'tis the season for BIG BUGGER SPIDERS!!

Well done on coping - myself, I am HUGELY unkeen on them - damn lurking beggars WAITNG for me to be ANYWHERE NEAR and they would.....well, actually - what?

My (rather sad) cure for arachnophobia? Be on your own.

EG. If you have a choice of (a) enter flat via outrageous spider LURKING in it's web or (b) sleep on street, you steel yourself to get by.

Likewise, spider in bathroom so (a) brave spider at a million miles distant in case it JUMPS towards you or (b) avoid bathroom and pee in kitchen sink/garden/flat walkway

I used to point out Serious Spiders to my two cats so that they could MARMALISE them and CHOMP THEM UP and EAT THEM, but - frankly - that made me feel quite bad. (Mind you - as an aside - I am the girl who grieves for vermin mice if they are brought in for my 'approval' by the boys - outwardly ntouched, dead , but still warm, and murmer and confort them.

Can't see me doing that with ma-hooo-sive spiders!!! ;-))

Now I'm not a brave sole, but here is nature telling you to Get A Grip, i fear!

[reetnproper]

Yup, they are definitely getting bigger and the only reason I'll go anywhere near a spider in the house, is to prevent the Reetlets from getting as aracnaphobic as me (although, thankfully, not as bad as you - my sympathies) and to squish them when the Reetlets aren't about.

I tolerate the ones in the greenhouses for obvious reasons but I do a reconaisance of the greenhouse door and roof to be sure that there aren't any webs within in head height or lower, for me to walk into (urgh!) and to acquaint myself with the present location of each of them, before I enter

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[VirginVegGrower]

I pick them up in tissue if Mr VVG not around. He uses bare hands and puts them outside. Me? I flush them down the toilet...mwahahahahaha!

[buzzingtalk]

I can't imagine I will ever be able to pick them up with tissue...I need a blunt object to smash them with! Shoes are great for it.

[FROSTYFRECKLE]

Aren't they getting bigger. Last year we had a spider (big bruiser of a thing) that kept on lurking behind the toilet. Before I could go I had to look and see if he was lying in wait for me Then Mr Frosty named him Shug the Spider and it helped. If I saw him I told Shug to b*gger off. My normal response is Mr Frosty's size 12 shoe Earlier this year we had Wullie the Spider, who sat at the bottom of the living room door (most of the time), he got eaten by a visiting doggie

[VirginVegGrower]

Our two terriers are great for eating spiders and flies. Watched the chickens eating flies too. If you can't pick spiders up buy a handheld vacuum thing and suck them up!

[zazen999]

They are everywhere at the moment; greenhouse, the proper house, the garden, the courtyard, the lottie.

AARRGGHH

[buzzingtalk]

i heard if you suck them up in the hoover, they get out again I have to know they are dead, and flushed down the bog.

Saw a massive one at the lottie today, made me jump out of my skin. Needless to say I moved on to another task!

[Potstubsdustbins]

So I am the odd man out on this thread, I quite like British spiders (not poisonous to man). Though SWMBO hates them that much she uses my shoe to squish them.

My fear hisssssssssssssssssss snakes.

Colin

[Aberdeenplotter]

Lakeland plastics has a super spidersuckerupper. Suck em up, put on the lid, hold gadget outside door or windowm unplug the lid then shake off. You lot hsould be ok wiff spiders. After all you are on the web

[Florence Fennel]

I can handle them outside in the garden, but I couldn't touch the ones in the house. It's Himself's responsibility to get rid of them. My daughter and eldest granddaughter scream at the sight of them and insist that the spiders are looking at them. Spiders do look to be getting bigger, wonder what they're eating?

[reetnproper]

Spiders do look to be getting bigger, wonder what they're eating?

It'll be all them left over Happy Meals and Big Macs the flies are eating

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[mothhawk]

It's spider breeding season! The females bulk up and get fat in preparation for egg laying, and the males are all in search of females, which is why they are out and about and much more visible. I do try and return most to the garden, but some are just.. well just too much spider, IYKWIM. I console myself with the thought that the male spiders are going to die off anyway after breeding, so if a few meet my size sevens it's no great loss.

[reetnproper]

It's spider breeding season! The females bulk up and get fat in preparation for egg laying,

Lol, all things considered I think I could have done without knowing that

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